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THE NORTH GEORGIA? 1
(SUCCESSOR TO THE NORTH
GEORGIA BAPTIST.)
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Balog, Ga., as second class matter.
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There’s a much ignored difference,
preaches the Chicago Tribune, be
tween beating our drums and beating
the devil.
Everything Isn’t going up in price,
remarks the Boston Herald. The Hud
son river can now be bridged for
many millions of dollars less than the
work would have cost 25 years ago.
Trouble is most of us don’t care to
build bridges and the rest of us
couldn’t do it, even at a marked down
price.
We are told by dealers that more
auto sales are now being made to
people living on the farms than to
any other class, and that farmers
west of the Mississippi river last year
bought more autos than all other
classes. Millions of dollars worth of
auto orders are now on the books of
the manufacturers to be filled as soon
us possible, boasts the Indiana Farm
er. We believe the above is authen
tic. We have heard from good author
ity that one-third of the farmers
around certain small towns in Illinois
own automobiles. At a recent short
course in agriculture at one of our
western states a farmer who attend
ed came many miles in a large closed
car, ns handsome and elaborate as
any we se in the cities. The farmers
want the best if they are able to pay
for them and many of them are.
That is a pretty radical proposition,
that mail carriers shall deliver mail
at no houses save those which are
provided with boxes conveniently
placed outside to receive it, but it
would be difficult to demonstrate its
unreasonableness. At present a large
part of the carrier’s time is wasted
in waiting for an answer to his ring
ing at the door, complains the New
York Tribune, if he could drop the let
ters into a box 1 and go his way, with
out waiting for a dilatory maid to
come and get them, he could make his :
rounds in much less time, and the re- ,
suit would be a more prompt delivery
of mail to all. As for the cost of boxes
to the public, it would be so small
as to be practlcaly negligible; certain
ly no more than people might properly
be expected to pay for the facilitating
and expediting of their own service.
Medical gentlemen who are propos
ing menus of corn meal mush, her
rings and beans for the workingmen,
on which he is assured that he will
grow fat at an expense of only 20
cents a day, are disposed to congratu
late him upon the opportunity that
prevailing high prices afford him to
arrange his diet on “a safe, sane and
economical basis.” We cannot imagine
tnese benefactors trying the mush,
beans and herring fare themselves nor
the workingman thanking them for
their thoughtlessnes, says the New
York Sun. The benefactors the work
ingman is looking for are those 'who
will bring about a reduction in the
price of the meat that has always been
a component of his food. He knows
what its sustaining power is from
habit, and he doesn’t want to know
how little he can live on, but why
the price of the meat should be al
most prohibitive.
A. W. McCann, advertising manager
of Francis 11. Leggett & Cos., of New
York City, in a recent address before
an advertising class in Brooklyn, gave
some practical illustrations of the ef
fectiveness of telling the truth in ad
vertising. His long experience with a
house which knows how the best re
sults are obtained enables him to
speak with authority. “No matter how
well our story is told,” he said, "if not
founded on facts its effectiveness will
perish. Untruth has no place in adver
tising, because the common sense of
the consumer challenges the merit of
the article brought before its atten
tion, and if every detail of goodness
claimed for that article does not as
sert itself upon personal inspection,
the interest of the individual is lost.
A caution, therefore, which harmon
izes with the first commandment of
simplicity is framed in the second
commandment, “Thou shall be truth
ful or silent.’’
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Experiments in Acoustics at At
lanta Attract Attention.
TRANSMISSION OF SOUNDS
Soft and Faintest Sounds Are Carried Great
Distances —New Discovery Will be Ap
preciated by Grand Opera Audiences.
Atlanta, Ga—A startling discovery
and one that is certain to attract
much comment throughout the entire
country, has been made through ex
periments in acoustics at the Atlanta
auditorium-armory, where the Mero
politan Opera company is to appear
in grand opera during the first week
in May.
Through the new discovery, it will
be possible for the softest, faintest
sounds emanating from the stage to
be heard in any part of the immense
building, and the great singers will
be able to make themselves clearly
understood without any additional
care in enunciation or added volume
of voice.
When the new stage, necessary to
accommodate the great choruses anu
scenic effects of the opera, was de
signed, it was found necessary to ex
tend the partitions at either corner of
the stage proper on out to the side
walls or the building, in order to shut
off that portion of tne edifice that is
left unused.
After experiernenting with several
sorts of materials to be used in these
side walls, the great stage carpenter,
Peter Clarke of New York who erect
ed the $250,000 stage of the Metropol
itan opera house, and the immense
Hippodrome stage, hit upon a plan
for installing a double wall of tight
ly stretched asbestos fabric, specially
treated, and stretched to an incredi
ble tension.
These walls are supported by a
framework of seasoned, light timbers,
until tlie whole resembles the gigan
tic sounding-board of a monster vio
lin. The effect will be that the walls
will vibrate to any sound produced
upon the stage, making it possible
to hear the sound of a pin dropped
into a plate from the height of a few
inches, the listener being stationed
anywhere in the great building. This
will greatly enhance the beauty of
the grand operas.
Caruso, the great tenor, who is
coming to Atlanta with the other
opera stars, has expressed intense
interest in the discovery, and has
written to Mr. Clarke, congratulating
him upon his ingenuity.
Work upon the $5U,000 organ is
practically completed, and the great
instrument will be used in conjunc
tion with the grand opera.
BOLL WEEVIL CIRCULAR.
Farmers Are Warned to Report the
Cotton Insect.
Atlanta, Ga.—State Entomologist E.
L. Worsham, perhaps the best posted
man on cotton diseases and insects in
the south, is now engaged in prepar
ing a circular which is to be distrib
uted among the cottou growers of this
state on the present status of the i ex
as boll weevil and when this dread
insect may be expected to appear in
southwest Georgia.
According to Entomologist W orsham
the boll weevil traveled eastward last
year a distance of 125 miles. Tuis is
the greatest distance yet recorded for
any one year. At this rate it is ex
pected the boll weevil will reach this
state in three years more.
The circular letter will tell the
planters what to expect and how best
to identify the dread insect in order
that its presence may be reported, in
stantly, and promt steps taken to re
tard its onward march wherever pos
sible.
So far nothing has been discovered
which can effectually stop the march
eastward. It appears to ue a case oi
watch and wait.
TUBERCULOSIS DAY.
Ministers Requested to Make Dread
Disease Subject of Sermons.
Atlanta, Ga. Tuberculosis day,
which will be April 24th all over the
United States promises to be of un
usual interest in Georgia. Preachers
here in Atlanta and over the state,
regardless of creed, will preach ser
mon* appropriate to the occasion. A
number of prominent Atlanta men are
urging the importance of observing
the day. Dr. George Brown, a well
known tuberculosis expert, has ad
dressed personal letters to the minis
ters and leading business men and
others throughout the state in the
interest of the day.
MUCH DIVERSIFIED FARMING.
Georgia Farmers are Growing Corn
and Oat Crops.
Thomasville, Ga. —-Cotton planting
in this section is nearly over, and
the acreage seems very little larger
than that of last year, or, in fact, of
several years past, the farmers al
ways putting about as much land in
it as they can spare.
With the high prices of the past
season it was thought that the acre
: age would be much much increased,
i but the south Georgia farmer has
found that his food crops are very
I profitable and a very safe investment
lor bis time and labor, and he no
longer risks his all on cotton.
The corn crop in Thomas county
! was an especially fine one last year,
! and a large acreage in it has been
I planted this season.
LATE NEWS NOTES.
General.
The millions popularly credited to
Harry K. Thaw at the time he killed
Stanford White did not exist. In re
ality he had only $400,00, so his moth
er, Mrs. Mary Copley Thaw testified
in the suit brought against her by
Clifford W. Hartridge to collect $92,-
000 for services in Thaw’s first trial.
Ambitious to gain fame as a sculp
tor, Evelyn Nesbit Thaw sailed for
Paris to continue her art work abroad.
She will rent a modest apartment in
Paris and do her own cooking. She
still receives a monthly allowance
from tho Thaw family, but her friends
say she is permanently estranged
from Harry K. Thaw, her husband.
Dr. Mason W. Pressley of Philadel
phia arrived in New York city from
Dutch Guiana and announced that he
had found a cure for the hook worm.
He refused to say what the cure is,
however. He came on the liner Sara
macca, and brought with him many
lantern slides showing the complete
development of the work in all its
stages. The slides are the fruit of
six weeks study in the hospital at
Paramaribo.
It became known in Chicago that
detectives who have been working
under the personal direction of J. T.
Harahan, president of the Illinois
Central railroad, have concluded their
report into the charge that the road
has been swindled out of large sums,
perhaps $1,000,000. It is expected
that arrests will be ordered. Beybnd
the fact that the money was obtained
from the railroad company through
an alleged conspiracy, nothing is
known concerning the details of the
manner in which it was conducted.
Dr. Eugene Doyen explained at the
International Congress of Physiother
apy in Paris his treatment of 'cancer
by means of electrically produced
heat. The secret of the discoverw is
that the cancerous cells are destroy
ey by a temperature of from fifty to
fifty-five degrees centigrade, which is
entirely harmless to healthy cells.
The method shows wonderful results,
he says, in eliminating the need of
the knife in all lesions which are ac
cessible to an electrical current, arti
ficially applied. The healing of the
tissues follows immediately upon the
coagulation of the cancerous cells.
Dr. John J. Hurley of Boston, Mass.,
announces the discovery of an anes
thetic which, like the Janesco discov
ery, does not make the patient uncon
scious, but allows him to take an ac
tive interest in what is going on while
feeling no pain whatever. The new
est method consists of an injection of
a solution of cocain adrenalin and
salt solution, beneath the periosteum,
which is a delicate membrane cover
ing the bones of the body. The ad
renalin is a substance made from the
so-called supra-venal bodies which are
small glandular structures resting
upon the kidneys. Dr. Hurley asserts
that he has used this method with
great success.
Announcement is made by the offi
cers of the Atlanta Music Festival
association that beautiful Miss Geral
dine Farrar, America’s own famous
soprano, has voluntarily consented to
sing at the federal prison during her
visit to Atlanta the first week in May.
Several others of the world’s famous
artists of the Metropolitan Opera
company, including Scotti, the great
baritone, and Oliva Fremstad, the
Swedish soprano, have also expressed
a willingness to sing for the unfortu
nate prisoners, *
Washington.
“I regret to say that the report that
my parents are reconciled to my
marriage is not true. Would to grac
ous it was,” said Philander S. Knox,
Jr., “I love my father and mother,
hut I love my wife and I am happy
with her. My going to New York
to meet my brother, Reed, started the
false report,” the secretary of state's
son said. “I am selling automobiles
and earning big wages. Ask my boss
if I’m not a star employes.”
Samuel Gompers, John Mitchell and
several industrial educators appeared
before the senate committee on agri
culture and urged the passage of the
bill introduced by Senator Dolliver of
lowa which seeks to appropriate $4,-
000,000 for instruction in secondary
agricultural institutions. The bill was
framed by the American Federation
of Labor.
Senator Lodge submitted to the
senate- the report of Dr. Harvey Wil
ey on the subject of storage of food
products. The report says that the
value of some foods, such as cheese,
ham, bacon, wine, beers and other
products, is increased by cold stor
age; other products like eggs, milk,
vegetables and butter are better
when used fresh. Dr. Wiley adds that
surplus products should be kept in
cold storage for such time as they
are not in season, and approves of
canned goods, but says they ought not
to be carried in storage beyond one
season and that no food products
should be stored beyond nine months.
The will of Thomas F. Walsh, the
mining magnate, filed in Washington,
D. €., leaves SIOO,OOO to charity and
the rest of the estate practically in
its entirety to Mrs. Carrie B. Walsh,
the widow, and Mrs. E. B. McLean, a
daughter. The estate is valuad at
from $8,000,000 to $10,000,000.
Colonel Roosevelt has communi
cated to some of his admirers in
Washington the news that on his re
turn he expects to stand .by Gifford
Pincliot, the deposed chief forester of
the United States. This information
is furnished by letters from the form
er president, as they are interpreted
by their recipients. It has filled the
friends and adherents of Mr. Pinch
ot with great delight and they are
not concealing their exultation.
COL COOPER PARDONED
Carmack’s Slayer Freed By Gov
ernor Patterson of Tennessee.
SON GRANTED NEW TRIAL
Tennessee Supreme Court AEEirmed the Sen
tence ol D. B. Cooper and Ordered New
Trial For Robin Cooper.
Nashville, Tenn—ln the case of
Colonel Duncan B. Cooper and Robin
J. Cooper, father and son, convicted
of killing former United States Sen
ator E. W. Carmack on the streets
here November 9, 1908, and sentenced
to twenty years each in the state
penitentiary, the Tennessee supreme
court by a divded vote affirmed the
sentence as to Colonel D. B. Cooper.
As to Robin Cooper, the case, also
by a divided vote, is reversed and re
manded to the lower court for anew
trial.
While Chief Justice Beard was read
ing a dissenting opinion in the case
of Duncan B. Cooper, Governor Pat
terson wrote a full pardon for tne
defendant in which he declares:
‘'ln my opinion aeither of the de
fendants is guilty, and they have not
had a fair and impartial trial, but
were convicted contrary to the law
and evidence.”
The reversal in the case of Robin
Cooper is based on assignments of
error in the trial judges failing to
charge separately as to Robin Coop
ers’ theory of self-defense, linking
the defense of the two defendants to
gether; excluding testimony of Gov
ernor Patterson as to talks with de
fendant, Robin Cooper, and advice giv
en him as to Colonel Cooper before
the tragedy; and the admission on
cross examination of Robin Cooper
as to intent of certain state’s wit
nesses in testifying as to certain in
cidents.
Colonel Cooper was still at the
capitol when the pardon was enter
ed in the secretary of state’s office.
He was at once surrounded by a
crowd of friends seeking to congrat
ulate him. He was as calm, and
even cheerful, through it all, as if
he had received an acquittal. The
reversal of his son’s case seemed to
interest and please him to the ex
clusion of his own fate.
“I wanted Robin’s vindication more
than I wanted a pardon,” was his
smiling remark when told of the gov
ernor’s action in behalf of himself.
Robin Cooper is under a $25,000 bond.
His friends freely predict that he
will not again be arraigned for trial.
Should he be, it would be a most
difficult undertaking to secure a jury
in Davidson county ->•
The supreme court opinion marked
an epoch in not only the legal an
nals of the state, but the political
as well. The democratic party of
Tennessee has been rent into bitter
factions over the prohibition ques
tion, and, as a wheel within a wheel,
“the Cooper case” has played a con
spicuous part.
Cooper is the close friend and al
leged political adviser of Patterson,
who is the leader of the anti-prohibi
tion forces in Tennessee. Carmack
was the chief of the prohibition move
ment. Patterson was a most import
ant witness for the defense at the
trial of the Coopers for the killing of
Carmack, whose death his friends al
lege, was the outcome of political
machination.
Now, on the verge of an election of
the judiciary, the supreme court was
called on to pass finally upon the case
over which it seems the party factions
have actually aligned themselves on
one side or the other. For sixty-nine
days the court had the case and the
state has been on the tiptoe of ex
pectancy as opinion days came and
went without its being referred to.
The announcement at last shows
an interesting status to those famil
iar with the intricacies of the politi
cal situation.
The pardon was not unexpected.
From Governor Patterson’s testimony
in the doubt below there could remain
no doubt as to his personal convic
tion of the innocence of the defend
ants. Such being the case, there was
never any doubt in the public mind
that he would grant a pardon to both
defendants should the supreme court
affirm the sentence. But while this
action did not come as a surprise, it
created all of the interest and all of
the wild excitement that a totally un
expected denouments to the whole
series of events could have done.
As to the result politically in Ten
nessee of the state supreme court’s
decision, opinion seems general that
the old factional lines —Patterson and
anti-Patterson, the latter representing
the prohibition or state-wide element
of the state democracy are un
changed.
WAR ON AMERICANS.
Foreigners Are Not Wanted on the
Railroads of Meico.
Monterey, Mex.—War upon Ameri
can railroad men in this republic has
been resumed by the native employes
of the railroad companies. These na
tives claim that they are discriminat
ed against and that foreigners fill the
more important positions to the det
riment and injury generally of the
Meican railroad workers.
The native unions have appointed a
committee of sixty to go to the City
of Mexico and present their grievances
to President Diaz. They think it thus
possible to dislodge the American and
other foreigners employed in the rail
way service.
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THE NATIONAL GAME.
Miller Huggins is showing his 1907
form about second base for Roger
Eresnahan’s Cardinals.
First baseman .Take Daubert, the
Memphis recruit, is now assured of
retention by the Brooklyn Club.
Tom .Tones, the veteran first sacker
with Detroit, is not worrying over the
onposition furnished by Lister and
Ness.
McGraw has not found much to en
thuse over in his young players. It
looks like the same team that played
at the Polo Grounds last year.
The Giants had hard work defeat
ing the Norfolk (Va.T nine by " to 0
owing to the fine pitching of Lloyd,
formerly a twirler in the Bronx.
President Noyes, of Washington,
went to Norfolk and induced the hold
out pitcher, Bob Groom, to sign. All
Washington players are now in the
fold.
Manager Jennings has decided to
retain three recruit infielders, name
ly, first baseman Liste’’. second oase
man Simmons and third baseman
Lathers.
Gus Schmelz, the old-time mana
ger. now a prosperous business man
of Springfield, 0.. is of opinion that
the Cincinnati Reds will win the pen
nant this year.
Few ball players have stuck to one
city like Theodore Breitenst.ein has to
New Orleans. The old fellow seems
to have drunk of the fount of perren
lal youth in the Crescent City.
President Stanley Robison, of St.
Louis, says that ‘‘double-headers do
not cheapen the snort,” and he says if
he had his way he would positively
stage a double bill every Sunday.
Hans Wagner and John Miller are
inseparable companions. This pair of
star Pittsburg infielders is rarely seen
around the hotel lobbies. They spend
their time playing seven-up in their
room.
May Ainlee’s.
The May Ainslee's opens with an
entertaining story of love and mys
tery, called “The Sapphire Bracelet,”
by Edward Salisbury Field. It is a
complete novel, sparkling with inter
est and humor, and moving forward
without a hitch to an amazing climax.
Women readers will be interested in
this story and in “The Eagle's Fe?‘
fer,” a dramatic love story by Emily
Post, in the same number. The
is a serial, and to those who have
not read the former chapters, is wort,,
looking up. Samuel Gordon tells a
very funny story of a woman fiirt's
nemesis at the hands of two men
whom she had engaged herself to sir
ultanenously in “A Cross Reference. '
The lure of strange lands is in a dra
matic story of the Chinese boxer up
rising, told by Will Levington Com
fort in “The Final Portrait.” Humor
is rampant in the charming tale of
Fannie Heaslip Lea, entitled, “By the
blue Hydrangea.”
Ah, the brief and unctious self-con
fidence of those who have not yet
been found out!